Beersheba (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – After his address to an almost empty hall at the UN, Benjamin Netanyahu found a warmer reception at […]
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Syria: Key ISIL Smuggling city, Manbij, falls to Kurd-Arab Force
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Syrian War is nowhere near over, but the Daesh (ISIS, ISIL) episode may be drawing […]
ISIL Captures Thousands trying to flee it in Iraq, Executes a Dozen
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Oman Daily’s Jabbar al-Rubaie reports that Iraqi security sources announced yesterday that Daesh (ISIL, ISIS) […]
Nagasaki, 1945: “The world did not need your experiment”
By H. Patricia Hynes | (Informed Comment) | – – Kyoko Hayashi nearly died on August 9, 1945 in the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. She […]
Obama not only did not pay Iran Ransom, he denied Iran Billions it had Coming to It
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Zack Beauchamp at Vox has a very clear explanation of why the $400 million the US […]
The Decay of American Politics: Pseudo-Election 2016
By Andrew J. Bacevich | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – My earliest recollection of national politics dates back exactly 60 years to the moment, in the […]
Donald “Dr. Strangelove” Trump and some of the Times We almost had a Nuclear War
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – I have long wondered why no one in Hollywood has remade Stanley Kubricks’s 1964 “Dr. Strangelove: […]
Dear Trumpists: Khizr Khan is not ‘Muslim Brotherhood’ and it wouldn’t matter if he Were
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – A Trump adviser is trying to smear Khizr Khan, the Pakistani-American legal consultant who spoke at […]
#CanYouHearUsNow: Muslim Women Lambast Trump’s Orientalism
TeleSur | – – Muslim women activists took to social media to take a stand against the Republican candidate’s bigoted drudgery. Muslim-Americans Khizr and Ghazala […]
Black Lives Matter Protests in Palestine
TeleSur | – – BLM argued that police violence and killings against Black people in the U.S. are connected to the decades-long Israeli oppression of […]
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